Art piece and its title/ Apie meno kūrinį ir jo pavadinimą
I will try to explain about my art research a bit and what came out of it. Everything started when
me and my brother discussed the relationship between object and its title. What does the title
mean and how it is connected with the object, what part of the object is necessary for the title
to remain the same, how does the title affect the object. These questions really interest me, and
that’s why I decided to make my research about this connection of piece of art and its title.
I chose Mona Lisa because this title, I think, is the best known title through the entire world
and has a very strong connection with certain Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting in people’s minds.
I decided to try adding or taking away something from this famous picture, interpreting or
deforming it, but still leaving the same title “Mona Lisa” and observing how it will affect the
spectator.
During the process I was losing my faith in this work, because it was really hard to withdraw
my imagination from these two words – “Mona Lisa” and try to see the other possible forms of
this painting. Then I’ve started to search for historical facts about this painting, trying to find
something to inspire me. The facts were just as I needed them. Historically no one truly knows the
real title of this painting.
Da Vinci didn’t leave the name of this portrait on the canvas. Sometimes
it is called La Gioconda, but usually art catalogues name it Mona Lisa. It is thought that Georgio
Vasari, known as the first art biographer, created this name. Well it quite helped me because I
found out that the title and the portrait are separated. Then I thought that I can create Mona Lisa
whatever I want and that would help me to realise some things about my idea. It wasn‘t very easy
even knowing this name is not painting‘s real title and I am free to interpret or deform this image. I
couldn‘t hide myself from that charming famous face and it was hard to create new form of picture
which I am trying to name Mona Lisa.
